On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:23:32PM +0100, Mark Kavanagh wrote:
> DPDK 2.0 contains an updated implementation of rte_memcopy, which
> leverages SSE and AVX instrinsics. In versions of GCC <= 4.8.2, it
> has been observed that the relevant instrinsics are not defined in
> gcc headers, resulting in compile-time errors.
> This issue is resolved by enabling the 'mssse3' flag at compile time;
> however, it's not possible to pass an additional flag via the command
> line without overwriting an existing compiler variable.
> 
> Introduce an additonal configuration option to resolve this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Kavanagh <mark.b.kavan...@intel.com>

What's wrong with setting CFLAGS on the "configure" or "make" command
line?  This is the standard way to do this with Automake and Autoconf.

We should certainly not introduce a configure option for every single
possible compiler flag.
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